Container Summit Articles

At the recent Container Summit, James Ford (ADP's Chief Strategic Architect) shared insight into how ADP approaches innovation. He talked about how ADP uses containers to innovate, and about the importance of innovation at ADP.

One of the biggest challenges of running an application at scale is solving for discovery between the application components, but how we solve that problem can have a dramatic effect on the reliability and performance of the application. Passive approaches that depend on infrastructure-based discovery can make an application difficult to debug and prone to cascading failures, but there is another hope.

This post demonstrates how you can deploy and scale a Node.js application backed by Couchbase and load balanced with Nginx. All the components are running in multiple Docker containers on Triton, and use Containerbuddy to automate discovery and configuration. We're using Docker Compose to deploy the application and scale it across the data center on Triton.

As successful as Docker is today, it is hard to fathom that the project got its start just two years ago from a struggling PaaS provider called dotCloud, which decided to open source its orchestration framework.

Alex Williams, founder of The New Stack, was emcee of the 2015 Container Summit event in San Francisco. During the event he spoke with many of the speakers, sponsors, and attendees. The interview below presents his perspective on the event and his musings on the container ecosystem.